Adult Swim animated stars Rick and Morty will soon get their own mobile game inspired by Pokémon.
Adult Swim Games announced the arrival of the Pocket Mortys game today via Twitter, including an animated GIF which showed the game in action as Rick gets challenged for an in-game battle.
Even the game's title is a rip on Pokémon, which was originally known in Japan as Pocket Monsters.
Series co-creator Dan Harmon did voiceover work for the game.
Pocket Mortys. Mobile. January 14th. pic.twitter.com/tXAU07lzbR
— adult swim games (@adultswimgames) January 5, 2016
Several follow-up tweets by creators Harmon and Justin Roiland showed off other videos of Pocket Mortys gameplay.
No need for conflict. It's REAL, Morty. On January 14th, POCKET MORTYS comes to iOS and Android. pic.twitter.com/UNFM4P4WLH — Dan Harmon (@danharmon) January 5, 2016
Guuuuys! A brand new Rick and Morty game for iOS and android hits on Jan 14th! POCKET MORTYS!! pic.twitter.com/hXN64ilnVF
— Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) January 5, 2016
Rick and Morty is an adult animated series created by Harmon and Roiland for Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's late night programming block. The show follows the antics of an alcoholic scientist, Rick, and his grandson, Morty, who alternate between their normal family lives and traveling through different dimensions. The series got its start as a Back to the Future parody on Channel 101.
"We can have Rick and Morty go on these adventures together as grandfather and grandson," said Harmon about the creation of the series to HitFix. "And then we can intercut it with these Charlie Kaufman, Woody Allen-esque petty domestic squabbles that are happening. That will be the formula of the show."
Rick and Morty premiered in July 2015, and since then, has garnered a lot of fans, along with critical acclaim. The series has a solid 85 on Metacritic with a 9.3 user score.
"The humor is offbeat and occasionally coarse, but the take-away here is that it works," wrote The San Francisco Gate. "Harmon and Roiland take a stock situation of a kid and his lovable granddad, and turn it on its head, but not before spinning it around and around. The animation, overseen by art director James McDermott, is fresh, colorful and as wacky as the script."
Now that wackiness and humor comes to mobile when Pocket Mortys lands on Android and iOS on Jan. 14 as a free download.
